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Japan

Asia · Eastern Asia

Total Species
1446
Threatened
3
CR + EN + VU
Population
126,476,461
Area
377,975 km²

Conservation Status Overview

Critically Endangered 1
Endangered 1
Vulnerable 1
Near Threatened 1
Least Concern 1
Data Deficient 1
Not Evaluated 1
Extinct 1

Species by Taxonomic Group

Plantae 1017
Animalia 427
Protozoa 2

Featured Species

Ecoregions

All Species in Japan

Cultivated Lettuce

Lactuca sativa

Not Evaluated

Cuman Ragweed

Ambrosia psilostachya

Not Evaluated

Cup Plant

Silphium perfoliatum

Not Evaluated

Curled Dock

Rumex crispus

Not Evaluated

Curled Thistle

Carduus crispus

Least Concern

Curly waterweed

Lagarosiphon major

Not Evaluated

Curved sicklegrass

Parapholis incurva

Not Evaluated

curve-pod yellow cress

Rorippa curvisiliqua

Least Concern

Cutleaf geranium

Geranium dissectum

Endangered

Cutleaf groundcherry

Physalis angulata

Least Concern

Cut-Leaf Mignonette

Reseda lutea

Least Concern

Cyanophyllum scale

Abgrallaspis cyanophylli

Not Evaluated

Cyprus Vetch

Lathyrus ochrus

Not Evaluated

Dagger flower

Mantisalca salmantica

Not Evaluated

Daghestan sweet-clover

Melilotus suaveolens

Not Evaluated

Dallisgrass

Paspalum dilatatum

Not Evaluated

Dalmatia Pyrethrum

Tanacetum cinerariifolium

Not Evaluated

Damascus Hellebore

Nigella damascena

Not Evaluated

Damask-Violet

Hesperis matronalis

Near Threatened

Dane's blood

Campanula glomerata

Least Concern

Darkling beetle

Tribolium destructor

Least Concern

Dark mealworm

Tenebrio obscurus

Not Evaluated

dark speedwell

Veronica opaca

Critically Endangered

Darnel ryegrass

Lolium temulentum

Critically Endangered

Daruma Pond Frog (Rana porosa brevipoda)

Pelophylax porosus

Least Concern

decollate snail

Rumina decollata

Not Evaluated

dense flat sedge

Cyperus congestus

Not Evaluated

Dense Silky-bent

Apera interrupta

Near Threatened

Depressed flour beetle

Palorus subdepressus

Not Evaluated

Deptford Pink

Dianthus armeria

Critically Endangered

Desert Goosefoot

Chenopodium pratericola

Not Evaluated

Desert horsepurslane

Trianthema portulacastrum

Not Evaluated

Devil'S Paintbrush

Pilosella aurantiaca

Least Concern

Dictyospermum scale

Chrysomphalus dictyospermi

Not Evaluated

Dioecious Amaranth

Amaranthus palmeri

Not Evaluated

Dirty Sea-Squirt

Ascidiella aspersa

Least Concern

Disc Mayweed

Matricaria discoidea

Not Evaluated

disc water hyssop

Bacopa rotundifolia

Least Concern

Divine nightshade

Solanum nigrescens

Not Evaluated

Dixie rosemallow

Hibiscus mutabilis

Not Evaluated

Dixie silverback fern

Pityrogramma calomelanos

Not Evaluated

Dixie ticktrefoil

Desmodium tortuosum

Least Concern

domestic goat

Capra hircus

Not Evaluated

dooryard sowbug

Porcellio laevis

Least Concern

Dowdy Plume

Stenoptilia zophodactylus

Extinct

Downy Safflower

Carthamus lanatus

Not Evaluated

Dried Fruit Beetle

Carpophilus hemipterus

Least Concern

Drone-Bee

Apis mellifera

Not Evaluated

Drugstore beetle

Stegobium paniceum

Least Concern

Dsinezumi Shrew

Crocidura dsinezumi

Least Concern

Duckwheat

Fagopyrum tataricum

Not Evaluated

Dudley'S Rush

Juncus tenuis

Least Concern

Dumb-Nettle

Galinsoga parviflora

Not Evaluated

Dune Sandbur

Cenchrus tribuloides

Least Concern

Dusky Plume

Oidaematophorus lithodactyla

Endangered

Dwarf Cape-Gooseberry

Physalis grisea

Not Evaluated

Dwarf Mallow

Malva pusilla

Vulnerable

Dwarf Marigold

Schkuhria pinnata

Not Evaluated

Dwarf nettle

Urtica urens

Vulnerable

Dwarf Setaria

Setaria italica

Not Evaluated

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